Group's Body-Building Guide to Community: Strengthening Relationships in Your Church

Group's Body-Building Guide to Community: Strengthening Relationships in Your Church

Boren, M. Scott

Group Publishing

Difference Makers: An Action Guide For Jesus Followers

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Baker Books

This accessible introduction explains what the missional church movement is all about and offers church leaders workable ways of implementing change.

Introducing the Missional Church: What It Is, Why It Matters, How to Become One (Allelon Missional Series)

Roxburgh, Alan J.

Missional think tank Allelon reenvisions the small groups movement through a book by the leading voice in missional communities.

Missional Small Groups: Becoming a Community That Makes a Difference in the World (Allelon Missional Series)

Is there any arena in the contemporary church more perplexing than small groups? Leaders and participants alike fill them with promises of unparalleled spiritual intimacy and reliable relationship. Experts put forward model after model, paradigm after paradigm, and frustrated small group leaders and followers meander from one to the next in increasingly vain hope that the next model will deliver the goods. What could be more natural than a group of people sitting together, talking? What could be more contrived than a packaged curriculum, with prefab questions and notes for leaders? Such is the problem of small groups. Scott Boren has wrestled with these challenges for years, in the context of his own small-group ministries and in consultation with churches of every stripe. In this book he reminds us that any small group, no matter how it's organized, is at its heart a collection of people each walking in the way of Jesus. That means we are going somewhere―together―and that means we have a reliable guide.

Leading Small Groups in the Way of Jesus

(This book is a revised &amp; expanded edition of Making Cell Groups Work) TOUCH Outreach has worked with thousands of churches and pastors. Throughout the years, we've made a few key discoveries, which are explained in great detail in How Do We Get There From Here?... -Success with holistic small groups happens when the members of the first groups are fulfilling the unique mission of your church. -Congregational assimilation is a stage six goal, not something you should try immediately. -The transition requires the senior pastor's personal and long-term involvement. -Team implementation is far more successful than a single individual calling the shots. -The transition to holistic small groups is a values shift, not the launching of a new program. These findings are just a small sample of what you will discover in this practical, step-by-step book on holistic small group or cell group implementation! "We'll just do what XYZ Church did" We receive calls from pastors who went to a big church's annual small groups conference, then returned home to launch groups. Most call because they now have groups that are not growing with new leaders or new Christians. If they had only read this book and followed Scott's advice! While we highly recommend visiting other churches doing small groups to learn, we've found that your journey into HSG-based ministry will be vastly different from any other church's pilgrimage. Therefore, your plan of action must be unique as well! How Do We Get There From Here? has the information you need to both understand the process and implement it in your unique congregation. Is this the transition process for you? There are dozens of introductory books on small groups and cell groups, which are excellent reading. But this book is unique. It explains the transition process in a way that guarantees healthy, holistic small groups proven to work in any kind of church.

How Do We Get There from Here?: Navigating the Transformation to Holistic Small Groups

Touch Outreach Ministries

Small groups are a great place to connect with a few other Christians, but many are looking for more than a weekly meeting that never goes beyond Bible study and some fellowship. They long for more than sitting in a circle to talk about a book or watch a video. They want to live the gospel of God, not just talk about it. God made us for more, and deep down we all know it. We know that we were made to manifest community in the way of Jesus. This study guide serves as a primer to help groups get started on this path. As a companion to the book Missional Small Groups, it will set a course for your group to move beyond a good meeting and into a kind of life together that makes a difference in the lives of group members and in the world. Filled with practical start-up suggestions along with creative exercises to help you develop your own ideas, this resource will guide your journey toward participating in God’s life and mission in the world. It will launch you in the way of Jesus.

Cultivating Community in the Way of Jesus: Missional Small Groups Study Guide

Ctr for Comm & Miss

Many have announced that the church needs small groups over the last five decades. Cell groups, organic groups, missional groups, exponential groups—the grouping strategies and programs are endless. While those promoting groups hope for flourishing community full of God’s life and love, in most cases, we settle for nice Bible studies or programmatic meetings. It’s time for a different approach!Beyond Small Groups provides a pathway for moving your groups beyond meetings and programs so that churches can get people connected and release them into God’s mission. Based on Ezekiel’s vision of the dry bones, this pathway provides an imagnation along with practical guidance for how to customize group structures, make disciples in community, and receive God’s empowering Spirit.“I am so happy that my friend Scott Boren has once again written such an important book. He gets it as both a thought leader and practitioner. Small groups are not our goal but a means to much greater purposes: Biblical community and spiritual growth. Small groups simply provide organizational constructs to enable that greater end, and Scott gets that. Read Beyond Small Groups, and be freshly and creatively reminded why life really is better connected.” (Bill Willits, Executive Director of Ministry Environments, North Point Ministries, Co-author of Creating Community)“As you read this book, you may come under conviction as I did, realizing that some of what we attempt to do in our groups is man-made. Scott explains how we can approach small group ministry in a completely different way to see completely different results. If you are exhausted with trying to find x number of new leaders for new groups to be launched and you desire to see your groups naturally grow and send out new leaders, this book will help you make a radical transition.” (Randall Neighbour, President, TOUCH Outreach Ministries, author of The Naked Truth About Small Group Ministry)“You will be stimulated and refreshed as you read this life-changing book. Scott Boren is a student of small groups, having lived, studied, and written about them for decades. This excellent book will help you think beyond small group formulas and techniques to understand the “why” small group ministry. Thanks, Scott, for writing this thought-provoking book!” (Joel Comiskey, Ph.D. www.joelcomiskeygroup.com)“Many people are an echo but a few are a voice. Scott Boren is a voice to those of us in the trenches of discipleship and groups. Beyond Small Groups will challenge your preconceived ideas about community and spiritual formation. It will cause you to take that critical second-look and uncover hidden realities you didn’t notice before. If you are a pastor, groups director, or point-leader, this is a must-read book!” (Andrew S. Mason, Founder of SmallGroupChurches.com)“Our hearts sing when we experience the “one anothers” of New Testament community because our God is loving and relational—and we are made in his image. Beyond Small Groups is an excellent resource for pastors and ministry leaders who want to see healthy and life-giving expressions of the church. Scott writes with a rich theological foundation and the wisdom of many years of practical coaching and leadership development. I heartily recommend Scott’s book to you and hope it will stir your desire to see the church alive and flourishing in your context.” (Jamey Miller, Lead Pastor of Antioch Fort Worth)

Beyond Small Groups

The easy-to-teach 60 or 90 minute sessions (you choose which length works best for your leaders) will provide your new leaders with the spiritual principles that make cell leaders successful, and they'll enjoy every minute of it. Session 1: Preparing Your Heart for Cell Group Leadership Session 2: Getting a Meeting Off the Ground Session 3: How to Facilitate Ministry in the Cell Meeting Session 4: Practicing Transparent Communication in a Meeting Session 5: Life Outside the Cell Group Meeting Session 6: Reaching Out to Unbelievers Session 7: Walking Together through the Stages of Group Life Session 8: Reforming Groups by Producing Leaders Appendix A: What Do We Do with the Children?

Cell Group Leader Training: Leadership Foundations for Groups That Work, Participant's Guide

Tillman, Don

Book by Boren, M. Scott, Tillman, Don

Making Cell Groups Work: Navigating the Transformation to a Cell-Based Church

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Group's Body-Building Guide to Community: Strengthening Relationships in Your Church

Difference Makers: An Action Guide For Jesus Followers

Introducing the Missional Church: What It Is, Why It Matters, How to Become One (Allelon Missional Series)

Missional Small Groups: Becoming a Community That Makes a Difference in the World (Allelon Missional Series)

Leading Small Groups in the Way of Jesus

How Do We Get There from Here?: Navigating the Transformation to Holistic Small Groups

Cultivating Community in the Way of Jesus: Missional Small Groups Study Guide

Beyond Small Groups

Cell Group Leader Training: Leadership Foundations for Groups That Work, Participant's Guide

Making Cell Groups Work: Navigating the Transformation to a Cell-Based Church